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Association Meetings Up, Attendees Down

SmartMeetings

There were more international association meetings than ever last year, but on average the meetings had fewer participants, reports the International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA). Over the same time period, the number of meetings per year has doubled, from just under 6,000 to more than 12,000 in 2016.

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ICCA Names Top 20 Association Meeting Cities

SmartMeetings

Number of Meetings in 2016. With 934 meetings in 2016, the United States once again ranked first. It has far and away the world’s highest number of international association meetings; second-place Germany had 689 meetings in 2016. Number of Meetings in 2016. United Kingdom.

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Convene’s 2016 Salary Survey

PCMA Convene

percent, meeting professionals received a higher-percent raise than the overall national average — the nonprofit human-resources association WorldatWork estimates that the 2016 budget for raises for the U.S. According to our survey results this year, the overall average salary for meeting professionals is $80,505.

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Highlights from IMEX America 2016

SmartMeetings

There were more reasons than ever to attend IMEX America 2016, the biggest three-day exposition for incentive travel, meetings and events, which concluded yesterday at Sands Expo and Convention Center at The Venetian | The Palazzo Las Vegas. Here are six highlights from IMEX America 2016: Innovation & Technology.

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Ninja Moves for Improved Conference Session Marketing

Velvet Chainsaw

As conference education trumps the exhibit hall experience at many association meetings, or creeps into your trade show experience to create a solutions-driven, holistic experience for your attendees, upping your game with session titles, descriptions, and learning objectives has become more important than ever.

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Convene’s 27th Annual Meetings Market Survey

PCMA Convene

Only 34 percent of respondents (down from 43 percent in the 2016 survey and 50 percent in the 2015 survey) indicated that they will be holding meetings outside the United States in the future. percent in the 2016 survey. 2017 attendance vs. 2016 attendance — +3.6 percent in the 2016 survey. percent compared to +4.9

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ASAE Gambles on a Bold Pricing Model

PCMA Convene

ASAE sunsetted its 40-year-long Springtime Expo in 2016 to make way for the new XDP, which launched in 2017. Before the event, Graham had described XDP as “a game-changer for the association meeting industry.”

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